If it looks to you that the Republican Party's primary voters this year seem older and whiter than usual, you're not mistaken. National Journal took a look at exit polls posted on CNN.com through last week's Super Tuesday primaries.
Comment?

Lincoln Technical Institute and Kaplan Career Institute, both for-profit schools, will pay more than $2.3 million in a settlement with the Massachusetts Attorney General's office, the AG's office said Thursday.
Comment?

The Global Ireland Football Tournament invited two Atlanta Catholic schools to their 2016 Tournament . I didn't even know the Global Ireland Football Tournament was a thing until the announcement, but hats off to the organizers.
Comment?

That's right: Perry's latest message to Trump following a month-long war of words was to see who is physically the toughest. "Let's get a pull-up bar out there and let's see who can do the most pull-ups," the former Texas governor and Air Force Captain said after a speech Wednesday at the Yale Club in New York.
Comment?

The Massachusetts economy grew at more than double the rate of the nation's between April and June, with a big boost from increases in consumer and business spending, according to the University of Massachusetts and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. The state's gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of 5.4 percent, compared to the US gross domestic product increase of 2.3 percent, according to the US Department of Commerce, which reported it Thursday.
Comment?

The Baker administration shook up the embattled MBTA's leadership team today, creating a new "chief administrator" position to oversees its finances and keeping in place its interim general manager. Brian Shortsleeve, a Marine veteran who worked at Bain & Company and on former Gov. Mitt Romney's 2002 gubernatorial campaign, will assume the new role alongside interim GM Frank DePaola, who despite the temporary tag will stay in place until at least June, officials said.
Comment?

The CW Seed is The CW's digital home for comedy. Learn more about the variety of shows you don't want to miss only on The CW Seed! This cat was found by fishermen along the Westfield River with its paws tied together.
Comment?

Before the phrase 'individual mandate' was in the national lexicon, Mitt Romney speaks to a group of medical professionals about his efforts toward universal healthcare while he was serving as Massachusetts Gov.
Comment?

More single-family homes were sold in Massachusetts during June than in any month since August 2005, according to newly released data, which also showed sale prices are up only marginally from the first half of 2014. The Warren Group reported that single-family home sales in June totaled 6,457, up 11.4 percent over June 2014.
Comment?

The Massachusetts economy bounced back from a snow-slammed first three months of the year , growing robustly at an estimated rate of 5.4 percent in the second quarter of 2015, according to new report. The state economy's 5.4 percent growth rate, reported Thursday in the journal Mass Benchmarks , also far outpaced the nation's over the same period.
Comment?

Obama says he will ''not countenance'' Iran getting a nuclear weapon and pushes back on suggestions Washington is close to making a decision about military action. Sen. Ted Cruz , R-Texas, a candidate for president, suggested that by concluding the nuclear deal with Iran, President Obama had become "the leading financier of terror."
Comment?

"First of all let me say that this Iranian nuclear deal is catastrophic," Cruz said when asked to respond generally to President Barack Obama's deal with Iran and specifically to Romney's criticism of his remarks hammering Obama on the deal. It poses the gravest national security threat to this country of anything we are facing.
Comment?

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health announced Wednesday, July 29 that West Nile Virus has been detected in mosquitoes collected from Easton. The type of mosquito is culex salinarius.
Comment?

In this Jan. 18, 2015, file photo, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady passes against the Indianapolis Colts during the second half of the NFL football AFC Championship game in Foxborough, Mass. Roger Goodell will hear Tom Brady's appeal of his four-game suspension for his role in the deflated footballs scandal, people with knowledge of the decision tell The Associated Press, Friday, May 22, 2015.
Comment?